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Bug 1259350 - (CVE-2015-5247) CVE-2015-5247 libvirt: denial of service when volume creation fails on NFS pool
CVE-2015-5247 libvirt: denial of service when volume creation fails on NFS pool
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20150903,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1253609
Blocks: 1259352
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Reported: 2015-09-02 08:37 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2016-11-08 11:09 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-20 05:14:20 EDT
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-09-02 08:37:52 EDT
It was reported that libvirt did not perform a proper clean up after volume creation fails on an NFS pool with "root_squash" option enabled.
This leaves the NFS pool in damaged state.
Comment 1 Eric Blake 2015-09-02 10:07:23 EDT
Fix is public as of 2015-08-02:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00018.html
Comment 2 Eric Blake 2015-09-12 11:24:43 EDT
Libvirt Security Notice:
http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0003.html
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-09-15 04:19:14 EDT
Upstream patches were released, see the Security Notice above.

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